Fernando Alonso is to revert to Aston Martin’s old car specification for Formula 1’s United States Grand Prix, as the Spaniard joins three other drivers in starting from the pitlane.
Aston Martin introduced a hefty upgrade for this weekend’s race at the Circuit of the Americas, but its weekend was derailed after it suffered brake problems in first practice that left it on the backfoot. Alonso was knocked out in Q1 and, with the car not looking competitive, his team has elected to make changes to both his and team-mate Lance Stroll’s cars for the grand prix. It means they will join both Haas cars in starting from the pitlane.
Lance is going to have the new spec and Fernando will have the Qatar spec.” Blandin explained that the FP1 brake problems which ruined Aston Martin’s weekend were triggered by an error made by its pre-event factory simulations leaving it with too little cooling for the demands of the track. “Because of a mistake on the simulation, we put too much blanking on the front brakes, so they effectively caught fire,” he said.
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